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Heat transfer over a stretching surface with variable heat flux in micropolar fluids

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In this article, the effects of the material parameter K, Prandtl number Pr, velocity exponent m, and heat flux exponent n on the heat transfer characteristics of micropolar fluids are studied.
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This article is published in Physics Letters A.The article was published on 2008-01-28. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heat transfer coefficient & Convective heat transfer.

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Viscous flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

TL;DR: This paper presents a numerical analysis for flow and heat transfer in a viscous fluid over a nonlinear stretching sheet by employing a novel numerical procedure that converts governing partial differential equations into highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation.
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Flow of a Williamson fluid over a stretching sheet

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have examined the two dimensional flow of Williamson fluid model over a stretching sheet and the governing equations of pseudoplastic Williamson fluid are modelled and then simplified by using similarity transformations and boundary layer approach.
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Numerical analysis of magnetic field effects on Eyring-Powell fluid flow towards a stretching sheet

TL;DR: In this article, the two dimensional MHD flow of Eyring-Powell fluid model towards a stretching sheet was examined and it was found that the increase in the intensity of the magnetic field as well as Eyring and Powell fluid parameter γ shows resistance to the flow.
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Effects of thermal radiation on micropolar fluid flow and heat transfer over a porous shrinking sheet

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of thermal radiation on the flow of micropolar fluid and heat transfer past a porous shrinking sheet is investigated and self-similar ODEs are obtained using similarity transformations from the governing PDEs and are then solved numerically by very efficient shooting method.
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MHD stagnation-point flow towards a stretching sheet with prescribed surface heat flux

TL;DR: In this article, the steady two-dimensional stagnation point flow of an incompressible viscous and electrically conducting fluid, subject to a transverse uniform magnetic field, towards a stretching sheet is investigated.
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Theory of thermomicrofluids

TL;DR: In this paper, the simple microfluid theory of Eringen is extended to include the heat conduction and heat dissipation effects, and the exact nonlinear theory is presented and restricted by the axioms of constitution and the second law of thermodynamics.
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Self-similar solution of imcompressible micropolar boundary layer flow over a semi-infinite plate

TL;DR: In this article, the boundary layer flow over a semi-infinite flat plate is studied and the partial differential equations of motion are reduced to 2 couple differential equations and numerical solutions for different values of the parameters are obtained.
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On thermal boundary layer on a power-law stretched surface with suction or injection

TL;DR: In this article, similar solutions of the laminar boundary-layer equations describing heat and flow in a quiescent fluid driven by a stretched surface subject to suction or injection are obtained.
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Heat transfer over a stretching surface with variable surface heat flux

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the injection and suction on heat transfer over a stretching surface with variable surface heat flux and uniform surface heat flow subject to injection was examined. And the boundary layer equations were transformed to ordinary differential equations, containing an injection parameter I, velocity exponent parameter M, heat flux exponent parameter and Prandtl number.
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Moving wedge and flat plate in a micropolar fluid

TL;DR: Similarity solutions for a moving wedge and flat plate in a micropolar fluid may be obtained when the fluid and boundary velocities are proportional to the same power-law of the downstream coordinate.